AceofPonies

Whew, let me tell you. I was on DeviantArt last night for hours remodeling everything. I mean it was wild, I renamed a lot of wallpapers I've done, redone the sizes, and even on some of my older wallpapers I took off the big ugly logo I had of "DashOfCountry", hehe... sorry about that.

You can work wonders with Photoshop, I'm telling you!

So anyways, let's get down to the good stuff, sound good?

It's been quite a while since I've been active! Excluding the 3 new wallpapers I've done of Fluttershy (2) and Twilight Sparkle (1), then there was the "Applejack Month" Facebook cover I did back in October. Besides all of that, it's been kinda quite, eh? While I'm on the subject, let me throw a couple of links your way!

[Facebook Covers]

{Applejack Month Facebook Cover - aceofponies.deviantart.com/art…}

[Desktop Wallpapers]

{Fluttershy Wallpaper (1) - aceofponies.deviantart.com/art…}

{Fluttershy Wallpaper (2) - aceofponies.deviantart.com/art…}

{Twilight Sparkle -RAINBOW POWER- Wallpaper - aceofponies.deviantart.com/art…}

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So now, let me tell you about some of the updates I've made just generally all around! (In case you were wondering!)

• Simpler Wallpaper Names

- This take a load off my back, making similar versions of everypony and placing "V#" next to them was getting kind of hard, to be honest. Now, I've went back and renamed most of the pony wallpapers to just their names. So now, most wallpapers of Twilight Sparkle (example) will say "Twilight Sparkle Wallpaper", just to make things easier. Most of them will be like that from now on, unless there's something special and unique about it. Like one of the links (above) I put out, you'll see a "Twilight Sparkle -RAINBOW POWER- Wallpaper", this one is special because it's Twilight Sparkle in her awesome and totally adorkable rainbow power form.

• Reduced default wallpaper sizes

- This one may seem kind of like a jerk move, but I took the wallpapers from being their full size to a smaller size (I think 800px wide), so now you actually have to download it to use it. I feel like that seems kind of mean, but that's how most wallpapers I've seen actually work. Plus, I just like knowing how many people are using my wallpapers, it makes me feel good knowing some of you guys have them on your computers!

• Extremely low fee for future Requests

- I feel bad for putting this one out there, but in the future I'm going to have to ask for 1 Point when you have a request for a wallpaper design (or other kind of art I'm doing at the time). I feel bad for doing it, but making some of these wallpapers takes time, I love to do them, but it takes some work. I pour my heart and soul into this stuff, that's why I personally feel like some of them look so good, they remind me of how much better I've gotten in the past couple of years. Just remember that I'm not taking requests until I post something about it, just a friendly reminder! I'd hate to get swamped with tons of requests without even being properly prepared!

• Starting to give credit where credit is due

- As embarrassing as it is to say, I never really thought of asking for permission to use the vectors I did in my wallpapers, but I plan on doing it from now on. I feel totally bad about it, and should too. I can go ahead and tell you that the cutie marks I always used were from BlackGryph0n, so there's that out of the way (love his music!). But like I was saying, I'll totally be giving credit now, where I should have been to begin with. I don't want to be one of those guys that just take art without giving proper credit.

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Just so you know, I no longer use GIMP to make these wallpapers. In the very short and brief update about remodeling I made earlier, I think I put that I use Photoshop now. I love it, and I'm getting to be extremely well at it. If you can tell a difference, I actually made the newest Twilight Sparkle wallpaper in Photoshop. I've done plenty of stuff in it before, but that was the first one I actually put on DA, so I hope you guys can tell a difference and like it! I may turn back to GIMP every once in a while for some of the epic brush designs it had, but I'll probably let you know in the description if or when I do.

Another thing, I'm not restricting myself to doing only MLP anymore, which I still love and adore to do, but I've been wanting to make Sonic the Hedgehog wallpapers for longer than I can tell you. Plenty of other things too, I'm sure most will be Video Game related, or just something new all together!

By the way, while looking at/editing some of my old (very first!) wallpapers, I noticed how much of a southern person I was back then, haha. I remember when I actually used to speak like that, what wild days. I can't even properly think anymore when I hear the word "y'all" or "reckon", my goodness. You know, it's when I look at stuff like that that shows me how much I've grown since I first became a Brony, it's just wild. I remember when I came on here, I was so into Applejack it's not even funny, loved my little AJ. But of course, I've moved on from that. Actually, I think everypony has been my favorite except Rainbow Dash (sorry, Dashie! <3), but I still love her.

So, all this is pretty much the big update. Trying to summarize it all up since some may have completely skipped the reading (TLDR!) and went to the bottom:

• Introduction.

• (Newest) Wallpaper updates.

• Changes to this account (What I do, how I do it, stuff like that).

• Minor changes (with rambling!)

• Ending (Winter Wrap-It-Up!)

I appreciate it if you guys read all that, I know it may have been long and boring but that's what's been up! I hope to hear from you guys soon, and it's good to be back home. Any questions you may have, I'll happily answer the best I can in the comments!

 -Rob